Diana Al-Hadid
(Syrian, born 1981)
Biography
Diana Al-Hadid is a contemporary Syrian-born American artist known for her process-based sculptures and drawings which resemble ruined cities or archaeological artifacts. Referencing her Middle-Eastern heritage, art history, cosmology, ancient architecture, and physics, the artist builds her works in such a way that they can be dissembled and reassembled. “A lot of the reason I’m drawn to history is that I don’t know that much about it so I come to it with the same curiosity that people have for me,” she has said of her process. “I’m not actually that knowledgeable. I have an interest, but it’s always for a selfish reason.” Born in 1981 in Aleppo, Syria, her family emigrated to Canton, OH when she was five years old. She went on to attend Kent State University for her BFA before receiving an MFA in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. Today, Al-Hadid’s works are held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, among others. The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Diana Al-Hadid Artworks
Diana Al-Hadid
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.jpg "Reigning Queen (2017), 2017")
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